Jerome Adams
| Jerome Adams | |
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Surgeon General of the United States Nominee |
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Taking office TBD* |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Sylvia Trent-Adams (Acting) |
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County (BA, BS) Indiana University School of Medicine (MD) UC Berkeley (MPH) |
| *Pending Senate confirmation | |
Jerome Adams is an American anesthesiologist who has served as the Indiana State Health Commissioner since 2014. He was appointed to the position by Governor Mike Pence in October 2014 and re-appointed by newly elected Governor Eric Holcomb in 2017. On June 29, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Adams as the next Surgeon General of the United States.
Adams grew up on a family farm in Mechanicsville, Maryland, where he attended Chopticon High School. He attended the University of Maryland Baltimore County through a full-tuition Meyerhoff Scholarship, a grant dedicated to minority students interested in the sciences. Adams received his BS in biochemistry and his BA in biopsychology. He studied in both Holland and Zimbabwe.
Adams attended medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine as an Eli Lilly and Company Scholar. He also received a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, with a focus on chronic disease prevention. Adams completed his internship in internal medicine (2002-2003) at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, and his residency in anesthesiology (2003-2006) at Indiana University. He is board certified in anesthesiology.
After two years in private practice at Ball Memorial Hospital, Adams was named Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Indiana University. He has written several academic papers and book chapters, including chapters in Anesthesia Student Survival Guide, A case-based approach, and an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health, "Are Pain Management Questions in Patient Satisfaction Surveys Driving the Opioid Epidemic."
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